Then he weaponized the IRSfor use against his political enemies. Although the IRS was by no means the only branch of Treasury used to coerce people into doing what the Obama Administration wanted; other arms were used in conjunction with the DOJ to implement“Operations Chock Point.”

Suffice it to say that this story is yooge! Perhaps so yooge that even the MSM will have to report on it, if only to discredit it. But it could get very, very sticky. Especially with the titular head of the Dark Shadows Inc.™ government headquartered right down the street from the new Trump tower (which may or may not be wire tapped as well).

The actual head of Dark Shadows Inc.™

Consider the story of Barnabas Collins a cautionary tale: just because he’s gone doesn’t mean he won’t be back to make your life a living hell.

But frankly I’m already tired of their Russian squirrel so from now on my only response to anyone bringing it up again is this…

and demand that they tell me exactly who or what they think the ex-President was planning to compromise “after the election.”

For all we know the Russians hacked the Democrats’ computers in retaliation for Obama not following through on his promise to “be more flexible.” So let’s put that out there, it’s as believable as any other fake news.

What did you expect? The only job Barack Hussein Obama ever had before running for President from the U.S. Senate was Community Organizer. The community he sought to organize just grew along with his ego year after year.

Just a word of caution: there’s a very thin line between “Deep State” and sedition. And you, sir, are a thin man; a very thin man indeed.

Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Like everything else he said on the campaign trail, he meant it; and last night he delivered on that promise. President Trump delivered a speech so good that even the fake news media had to begrudgingly applaud.

“Each American generation passes the torch of truth, liberty and justice — in an unbroken chain all the way down to the present.

“That torch is now in our hands. And we will use it to light up the world. I am here tonight to deliver a message of unity and strength, and it is a message deeply delivered from my heart.”

Of course the Fake News (FN) media couldn’t quite leave it without a few side-winded snipes: from FN Washington Post:

Seeking to steady his presidency after a tumultuous first 40 days, Trump had an air of seriousness and revealed flashes of compassion as he broadly outlined a sweeping agenda to rebuild a country he described as ravaged by crime and drugs, deteriorating infrastructure and failing bureaucracies.

I predict that now Trump is president the WaPo will shortly describe America as “ravaged by crime and drugs, deteriorating infrastructure and failing bureaucracies” too. And they’ll never point out how it got that way. And here’s an interesting observation they just as easily might have said about Obama but never did:

Trump’s 60-minute speech touched on his plans to overhaul the nation’s health-care system and tax code, but it was short on specifics and heavy on lofty prose.

And the formerly venerable New York Times felt it necessary to fact check the entire speech; amazing how much their auditing skills have improved seemingly overnight

So all ye of little faith, do you still doubt that President Donald Trump can Make America Great Again? If you do - fair warning – you do so at your own risk.

Tuesday, February 28, 2017

If there’s one thing that Democrats excel at it’s organizing; otherwise we wouldn’t have wound up with a community organizer as president. But even in defeat Democrats organize; that’s why they’ve been staging protests around the country ever since Trump won. Their latest lamentations can be seen and heard at Republican town hall meetings around the country. The Dem overlords have instructed the “grassroots” “folks” on how to attend and disrupt the meetings - two things that Democrats are particularly good at: participation and protest.

House Democrats participate in sit-in protesting the blocking of their gun control bill

So it’s no surprise to anyone that they continue to amass troops at Republican legislators’ town halls. Here’s a sample of the type of information and instructions the useful idiots are receiving from Central Control:

The audio, obtained by local radio station KPEL, reveals a coordinated effort to create the public impression that Cassidy’s support for Trump is unpopular with his constituents. The activists, who describe themselves as liberals in the audio, can be heard strategizing how to best turn a local town hall into a political victory.

The activists split up into an “inside team” — tasked with occupying “as many seats as we can” and an “outside team,” whose job was to “give [the media] the coverage they want” before joining the others inside. Activists were instructed to dress like conservatives and leave at home “any signifier that you’re a liberal” in order to blend in with constituents. – Daily Caller

I especially like the tip about how to dress. I’d like to help them even more so here are a few specifics on “What Not To Wear” if you don’t want to reveal yourself as the tool you are. I know the urge to value signal is strong, but Resist You Much! So here a few dead giveaways that will let us know that you are better than us:

Meat dresses

“I’m With Her” t-shirts, especially if you’re a metrosexual

Any Bernie gear

Also to be left home if you want to pass: pink pussy hats and any other, uh, pink pussy wear.

Monday, February 27, 2017

Full disclosure: I didn’t watch a second of Hollywood’s annual “We Are The World” show last night. But I did hear that Russia hacked the election! That’s right, they tried to award the Best Picture Oscar to La La Land rather than the rightful candidate, Moonlight, in a dramatic climax to what was by all reports a very long evening.

Boris and Nastasha, pulling the strings backstage for PricewaterhouseCoopers

Fortunately the treachery was discovered in time to snatch the statuette for Best Picture Oscar away from the announced winner (La La Land – about white people singing and dancing in LA) and hand it over to its rightful owner (Moonlight – about a black guy schtruggling in Miami).

People knew immediately it was either a mistake or sabotage as there was so much blowback against last year’s #OscarsSoWhite that social justice demanded #OscarsSoBlack this year (Mission Accomplished!).

In a scenario that perfectly illustrates that actors are only as good as the lines they’re given to read, Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway opened the envelope announcing the winner for best picture they’d been given and read the line that was inside: La La Land. Don’t you hate it when you’re give the wrong script? Anyway the Russian chicanery was discovered and an AWKWARD situation ensued.

No wait, I screwed up - you didn’t win! I should have known, the fix was in for Moonlight.

This little mistake unfortunately overshadowed all the clever Trump-bashing throughout the night by the clever Not-My-President representatives of the Entertainment Class.

So yeah, let’s let these Einsteins of Hollywood run the country. And in case you don’t think they’re up to the task allow me to run some of their credits, as forwarded by SilverLady last week. Even if you’ve seen them before it doesn’t hurt to remind everyone just how smart they all are:

LEONARDO DeCAPRIO's self-declared climate expertise enables him to speak on the world's environmental issues with a high-school education. He never took a college biology, chemistry, physics or climatology course, yet he knows more than most scientists. He proved that by addressing climate change before a full gathering of the UN.

SEAN PENN's quick takes on everything put him at the lofty level of an Einstein. He visited Iraq once and became an expert on that country. The same for Iran. He also became buddies with the brutal Venezuelan communist Hugo Chavez and consistently lauded that murderous thug. Now that Chavez is gone and Venezuelans are raiding dumpsters for food scraps, Penn is having a rare silent moment. Penn deserves some credit for becoming a world-affairs genius based on two years of auto mechanics classes at Santa Monica College.

KATY PERRY's passion about politics and economics freed her to quit high school at 15 without compromising her expert status. Asked the square root of 64, the name given the Constitution's first 10 amendments and to explain PE ratio, her answer might be, "Republicans are for the rich." She recently demonstrated wizardry by making an anti-Trump video. It suggested the new president would commit acts similar to forced World War II lockups of loyal Japanese-Americans. Perry probably did not know the internment plan was developed and executed by DEMOCRAT President Roosevelt.

ROBERT DeNIRO must also be a quick learner. He acquired amazing scientific knowledge before dropping out of high school. He knows so much about geology that he joined Artists Against Fracking. (All the producing wells in his native Manhattan must have provided first-hand experience.) He's also an expert on pediatric medicine, enabling him to speak often against vaccinating infants and children.

HARRY BELAFONTE is another multiple-subject whiz who needed little formal education. Some people might think this talented singer might limit his words to songs since his IQ is so low. Don't worry. Despite advancing age, he remains expert on most things. When black people of greater intelligence (that's most black people) say something moderate or conservative, he hurls the N word at them. Decades ago, he loudly denounced Reagan's elimination of CETA, the Comprehensive Employment Training Act. It was one of the most wasteful federal programs ever -- many vanished dollars, few jobs. Belafonte tore into Reagan during an interview Finally, the interviewer asked Belafonte what CETA stood for. Belafonte had no clue. He knew almost nothing about the act.

ROSIE O'DONNELL was my personal favorite long before her hateful remark that Trump's 10-year-old son looked autistic. Her coarse philosophy must be that if you say something loudly, it need not be correct. Her bombast probably created lots of turmoil with both the women she "married." She also must have skipped chemistry during her high-school education. Otherwise, she would have not have offered "proof" that 9/11 was an inside job. She often bellowed that planes could not have brought down the Twin Towers because "steel doesn't burn." This constant jackass must not know that high temperatures DO reduce steel's strength.

AL SHARPTON would be America's greatest at-large criminal, if not for Hillary's tens of millions swapped for influence and favors. Sharpton owes nearly $5 million in delinquent taxes to IRS and New York state. Makes you wonder why NBC/MSNBC would ever hire him. Sharpton accumulated vast theological knowledge by age 9, when he was "ordained" as a preacher. He didn't need more than a high-school education to keep marching forward. His most successful high school class must have been Shystehood. Despite one scandal after another, his 2004 run for president stands out. The Federal Election Commission forced him to return $100,000 in taxpayer money provided by FEC. One of many abuses was his $145,146 charge for "Campaign letter preparation -- Kinko's." Later, FEC fined Sharpton $285,000.

JULIA ROBERTS proves that physical beauty does not ensure a beautiful brain. She had a fling at Georgia State University before pursuing acting lessons and joining a modeling group. Her acting and modeling skills guided her to such thoughtful observations as "Republican" comes between "reptile" and "repugnant" in the dictionary. Impressed?

BROOKE SHIELDS, an Obama supporter, verifies the Roberts theory -- that physical beauty does not guarantee a beautiful brain. During her days as a boisterous animal-rights supporter, Shields had a mink coat custom-made.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN could have been No. 1 on this list. He squabbled with nuns when in Catholic school. Transferring to a public school, he thought so little of the education experience that he skipped graduation. Had he gone to college, he might have majored in Hate 101. That's what we hear when he's not singing. He claims Trump is a "moron" who advocates "white nationalism." Springsteen demonstrates the analytical skills' void of most show-biz folk when he laments America's industrialization decline. Somebody please whisper to Springsteen that his party's business-crunching regulations and world-leading corporate tax rate compels U.S. manufacturers to go elsewhere. Finally, two others are outside the entertainment world, disqualifying them from winning an Oscar, Emmy or Grammy. Politicians Nancy Pelosi and Maxine Waters do compete for the Rock Head of the Year trophy each time they speak. Pelosi frequently wins with comments like needing to pass a bill "so we can find out what's in it." Waters has already locked up the 2017 trophy for suggesting a Trump impeachment over his campaign antics. Listen closely, Maxine. Presidents can be impeached only for what they do in office.

"Yo Moonlight, I'm really happy for you, I'll let you finish, but La La Land was one of the best movies of all time! One of the best movies of all time!"

Sunday, February 26, 2017

Some of you may recall when I discovered back in 2009 that I had powers that even NASA didn’t know about:“I believe I’ve discovered that I have the power to make my dreams come true! “

Well not always but if the sun, the moon and the stars are aligned just right, whatever I dream that night comes true. There must have been one of those rare celestial occurrences last year about this time as I came across this post when I was clearing my cache the other day. I should note that at the time I was still a committed Ted Cruz delegate, so not only do I have the power to make my dreams come true, but apparently I possess the power of clairvoyance as well.

“I've given up the looking glass; quicksilver has no sense of tact.” - The Lion in Winter

For reasons beyond the obvious, Janice the Elder’s parody of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” from yesterday’s thread made me think of another great movie that I should have added to our list of “great old movies” to watch in lieu of the debates: The Lion In Winter (1968 version not the 2003 remake). It is a tale of Machiavellian political intrigue and chicanery set in the 12th century:

Christmas 1183--an aging and conniving King Henry II plans a reunion where he hopes to name his successor. He summons the following people for the holiday: his scheming but imprisoned wife, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine; his mistress, Princess Alais, whom he wishes to marry; his three sons (Richard, Geoffrey, and John), all of whom desire the throne; and the young but crafty King Philip of France (who is also Alais' brother). With the fate of Henry's empire at stake, everybody engages in their own brand of deception and treachery to stake their claim. – IMBD

Not unlike this year’s Republican presidential primary season.

Think of the GOPe leadership as the Plantagenet King Henry: after his heir apparent was killed, he organizes a gathering of his clan in an attempt to choose a successor among his 3 remaining sons, none of whom he likes all that much and one of whom he despises.

The remaining potential heirs are a bunch of plotting, double-crossing, lying, family members vying for the crown. As the holiday winds on the power shifts back and forth numerous times. In the end however everything is exactly as it was when they began: King Henry decides to throw all the bums out and start over, Eleanor is sent back to prison, the three princes are still squabbling over who shall be king, Princess Alais, Henry’s mistress, is still caught in the middle, and Henry still has no clear successor.

The movie dialog is delicious. I found myself recycling some of it for the benefit of today’s race for the crown.

Trump, channeling Henry II:

Henry II: Oh God, but I do love being king!

Kasich, channeling Prince John:

Prince John:Poor John. Who says poor John? Don't everybody sob at once! My God, if I went up in flames there's not a living soul who'd pee on me to put the fire out!

Trump to Jeb!:

Henry II:Now hear me, boy... Philip II: I am a king - I am no man's "boy"! Henry II: A king? Because you put your ass on purple cushions?

On the inevitability of Trump:

Henry II:The day those stout hearts band together is the day that pigs get wings. Eleanor: There'll be pork in the treetops come morning.

Eleanor:Well, that's the way deals are made. We've got him if we want him. He'll sell us all, you know... but only if he thinks we think he won't.

In summary: A tale of betrayal, treachery, and a knife fight: just another day on the trail leading up to the coronation of the Republican presidential nominee. I leave you with perhaps the best line from the entire movie, from Princess Alais. It best reflects the country’s prevailing sentiment and mood right now:

Princess Alais:Kings, queens, knights everywhere you look and I'm the only pawn. I haven't got a thing to lose - that makes me dangerous.

And that my friends is why The Donald is probably the inevitable nominee.

Epilogue, February 26, 2017: Yes, my dream came true. Not only was The Donald the inevitable nominee, he was the inevitable President. Thanks to all of us pawns who had nothing to lose and finally banded together when we realized it. So far I’d say it’s working out pretty well, so you’re welcome.

In closing the President King has just one more thing to say – to the press:

Henry II: I know your plans and expectations - you've burbled every bit of strategy you've got. I know exactly what you will do, and exactly what you won't, and I've told you exactly nothing. To these aged eyes, boy, that's what winning looks like!

Next up: the Russian Bear. And no, we’re not tired of winning yet!

Russian Tea Room's Dancing Crystal Bear: best not take your eyes off those balls